Amazing keynote by Elsa Pastor on women in wildfire research. Gender balance is slowly improving but at ~32% there is still a long way to go (as the “manel” at the opening of #icffr exemplified). Perhaps there is the need for an open, safe space to discuss practical next steps.

Great presentations (from an unbiased viewer...) from Tegan Brown on her work about canopy structure on fuel moisture content and gary sheridan presenting @asinbar work on soil co-evolution #ICFFR

With a negative IOD event recently declared, there is no better time then to check out how atmosphere-ocean phenomenon influence water availability across temperate (southern) Australia. Some recent work released by @JabbarKhaledi
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.102…

I've spent a lot of time in disturbed forests (severe fire, multiple severe fires, timber harvest, prescribed fire, and combinations of all) but the windthrow in the Wombat State Forest last year really is something else.

Third chapter of my PhD is out in Association for Fire Ecology - looking at live fuel moisture content (water + dry mass) in 3 plant functional types in Montana, USA. Enjoyed collaborating with @WMattJolly, Rocky Mountain Research Station & W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation on this one!

fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Sydney's 148.6mm during the last four days brings the city's running annual total up to 1696mm, continuing its wettest year-to-date in records dating back to 1859. This year's cumulative rainfall up to July 4 is 127mm higher than the previous record of 1569mm from 1890.

Dear student conducting field work:
Take (lots) of pictures of your work, especially field sites, your future self will thank you.

Over in stream 3 we are exploring ecological impacts. gary sheridan ForestHydrologyUnimelb University of Melbourne told #FireClimate2022 how bushfires change the long-term streamflow & water yields in Melbourne’s water catchments.

Have you ever searched for a simple model for debris flow runout/deposition and come up short? The wait is over now. Alex Gorr led this study to develop a really slick model of debris flow runout:

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Very proud of Tegan Brown for winning the Prince of Wales Award for Sustainable Forestry! 🌲🌿⭐️
apesma.informz.net/informzdataser…

I think I saw a Christoph Langhans-style hillslope debris flow track yesterday, with tiny levees. ⁦@asinbar⁩ ⁦gary sheridan⁩ see bi-pod for scale. #calwood #minorerosion